Five Bar Gate
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A two person game played with a racket, a ball, and a net on a rectangular court. One player is the goalie while the other is the shooter. The shooter has five shots at the goal after which the players switch positions. The first player to score fifteen goals is the winner.
The game first appears in Issue 202 when a drunk Cerebus challenges Bear to a game. The game appears again in issues 208, 209, and 210.
In Issue 267 Cerebus spends thirty years as a professional Five Bar Gate player in Northern Isshuria.
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Artist Notes
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Latter Days Notes
"...whatever-it-was-I-was-going-to-call-that-stupid-tennis-racket-game-that-I-invented-when-I-was-eleven...Five Bar Gate, ultimately, came from a George Harrison line in A Hard Day's Night..."
